Homemade soup

JagerLewis

I love making homemade soups. I always enter the recipes in on "my recipes". My question is....How do you figure how many servings a pot makes? For instance, I'm making bean soup with ham. The jar of beans (I don't have patience to wait for the dry ones :laugh: ) has 12 servings per container, then I add 2 cans of diced tomatoes which is 7 servings. etc... My pot is filled with water with the ham, onions, carrots, etc... Do I go by the amount of servings in all the food?? Or go by the amount of liquid in my pot? I would like to know how to do this accurately since this is one of my favorite soups and I intend on having more than 1 serving at a time.

1two3four

Is this where you mean?

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/recipe/calculator

Put all of your ingredients (veg, beans, grains meat, stock, seasonings, etc) in that, then to figure out what number to put in the servings ladle all of the soup into individual portions (my veg. beef soup makes eight pint servings, for example) OR if you can eye-ball a stock pot for volume and do the math (a 6-qt pot that's two-thirds full has eight pint servings, for example) and just make sure you're measuring your portion in your bowl to be a pint.

Does that make sense? I'm not the best at explaining especially numbers!

Mokey41

Add all the calories of your ingredients together and pick the servings by how much total product your pot is. You can either choose servings based on a set amount per serving or if you know how many cups your pot holds divide it by that and make one cup a serving.

manny1991

This might sound like extra work, but because the app I have wants me to list the number of servings before anything, I wait until its ready and I actually measure out my servings per cup. Last night I made a turkey chili and it came out to 9 cups total, or 9 servings. Then I add the ingredients one by one and MFP calculates the calories per serving. Hope that helps.

Francl27

This might sound like extra work, but because the app I have wants me to list the number of servings before anything, I wait until its ready and I actually measure out my servings per cup. Last night I made a turkey chili and it came out to 9 cups total, or 9 servings. Then I add the ingredients one by one and MFP calculates the calories per serving. Hope that helps.

This, but I agree it's a major pain in the butt.

JagerLewis

Thank you for all of your responses...Oy, I have a lot of work to do now.. Lol

TinaBaily

The responses are correct. The only way to determine your calorie count accurately is to measure all your soup (I do this now, and have a quart sized measuring cup that I use for this purpose) out into another container. If you "eyeball it," and assume that it's this or that amount, based on how much it "looks like" is in your pot, that is okay if you aren't too keen on accuracy, as it will be a close estimate, but depending on what is in your soup, it can be off by quite a bit.

Last night, for instance, I made fish chowder. My dutch oven was not quite halfway full, but I measured the soup out just to be sure and it was 7 1/3 C, with the recipe that I followed saying it served 6 people. I was then able to not only know that it was 6 servings, but that a serving was just shy of 1.25 cups. It was delicious, by the way!

Ready2Rock206

This might sound like extra work, but because the app I have wants me to list the number of servings before anything, I wait until its ready and I actually measure out my servings per cup. Last night I made a turkey chili and it came out to 9 cups total, or 9 servings. Then I add the ingredients one by one and MFP calculates the calories per serving. Hope that helps.

Or just put one serving to start with - and then when you're done you can change the number of servings.

I usually measure it all out into single serving tupperwares if I'm going to eat it all week and then count the number of containers and change my serving size to that.